Patents by Inventor Heribert Joseph Blach

Heribert Joseph Blach has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method, apparatus and system for the automatic provisioning of a network element
    Patent number: 7263285
    Abstract: A method for the automatic provisioning of a network element (NE) includes receiving a client signal at a tunable optical translator (OT) in the NE, determining the set of channels supported by the OT that are able to correspond to the client signal, eliminating the channels that have connections, that may be present on a line side of the NE in a laser off scan process, or that have not been equipped or otherwise provisioned for transmission, tuning the OT to each of the remaining channels and determining the optical power level of each channel on a line side of the NE in a laser on scan process. Subsequently, the channel with the highest power level is selected to transmit the client signal and associations for a point to point connection for that channel are added for that OT to a database of associations for the NE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Adleman, Peter L. Bartman, Heribert Joseph Blach, Ellen Eng, Narasimhan Raghavan, Yan Shi, Mary Socratous, William A. Thompson